Hand-stamp.



No. 759,430. 'PATENTED MAY 10, 1904. M. R. FLYNN. HAND STAMP.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 16, 1903.

R0 MODEL.

Patented May 10, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

MEADE R. FLYNN, OF DANVILLE, VIRGINIA.

HAND-STAMP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 759,430, dated May 10, 1904.

Application filed November 16,1903. Serial Nb. 181,397. No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MEADE R. FLYNN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Danville, in the county of Pittsylvania and State of Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hand-Stamps; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forminga part of this specification, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

This invention relates to improvements in hand-stamps, designed more especially for canceling stamps and marking mail-matter; and the invention consists in certain novel details of construction and combination and arrangement of parts, all as will be now described and the particular features of novelty pointed out in the appended claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is afront elevation of a hand-stamp embodying the present invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation showing the position the parts assume when the stamp is depressed. Fig. 3 is a rear elevation. Fig. 4 is a vertical section on line 23 m, Fig. 3.

Similar reference-letters in the several figures indicate the same parts.

The letter A indicates the head of the stamp, consisting, preferably, of a rectangular metal case or box adapted to contain the dies or type a, which are held in place by the screw a, as will be readily understood. The head A is provided with a handle B, by which the stamp is held and manipulated.

Mounted or formed upon the head A at each end thereof are casings or cylinders C, in the present instance formed of sheet metal bent into cylindrical form and having portions or ears 0 attached to the head by screws 0'.

Working in the cylinders O are plungers D, having the upper portions 01 reduced for the reception of coiled springs d, bearing against shoulders d of the plungers and the top of the cylinder C, respectively. The reduced portions or stems of the plungers extend through the top of the cylinders and are provided with stops for limiting their downward movement, these stops in the present instance being formed by nuts d screwed on the ends of the plunger-stem d.

The inking-pad e, of any suitable or desired material for inking the type a, is mounted in the holder F on a shaft f, pivotally mounted at each end in the plunger D at one side of the line of travel of the type. The front portion of the pad is curved, as shown, the curve being on such an arc as to clear the surfaceto be stamped when the pad is moving on its axis by the advance of the type, as will be presently 6 explained. V

The carrier is returned after each stamping operation to ink the type by a spring Gr, preferably coiled about the shaft f. (See Figs. 3 and 4.)

To keep the inking-pad E supplied with ink, it is preferably in the form of a receptacle or reservoir to hold absorbent material 6, as cotton, and closed at the rear by a lid f Whereby the cotton or other such soaked material is made accessible.

It will be noted that the plungers D extend below the holder F and in use strike the surface to be stamped first, a continued depression of the handle forcing the head down- 7 5 Wardly, compressing the springs. The head in its downward movement swings the padcarrier on .its pivotal axis, moving it out of the path of the type to the rear of the head, as shown in Fig. 2. As the stamp is lifted after printing the springs in the cylinders D assert themselves, the head is raised out of the way of the carrier F, and the spring G turns the carrier backwith the pad against the type, reinking the latter and placing the 8 5 parts in position for a subsequent operation.

The plungers being the parts which first contact with the surface to be stamped prevent any possibility of the ink-pad striking the same, and the mechanism being simple and positive in its operation the stamping operations may proceed as rapidly as the operator can move the stamp without danger of disarranging the parts and with the assurance that the type will be thoroughly reinked between each impression.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a hand-stamp, the combination with I00 the head, the plungers at each end of said head, the pad-carrier pivotally mounted on said plungers adapted to be engaged by the descending head and swung on its pivots, and the spring for returning the carrier to normal position; substantially as described.

2. In a hand-stamp, the combination with the head, plungers carried at each end thereof, the ink-pad carrier pivotally mounted on said plungers and normally lying in the path of the head and adapted to be engaged by the head as it descends to printing position and turned out of the path of the type to the rear of the head, the springs for returning the head to normal position, and the spring for returning the pad-carrier; substantially as described.

3. In a hand-stamp, the combination with the reciprocating head, the casings at each end thereof, the plungers working in said casings, the springs encircling said plungers, and adapted to be compressed as the head is depressed, the pad-carrier pivotally mounted on said plungers, the spring for holding the pad up against the head, said pad adapted to be engaged by the descending head and swung on its pivots against the tension of said spring; substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

4. In a hand-stamp, the combination with the printing-head, having the handle rigid therewith, of the plungers carried at each end of said head, the inking-pad pivotally mounted on said plungers on an axis at one side of the path of the head, said plungers projecting beyond the pad, whereby the plungers will first contact with the surface to be printed and the head on its further advance will engage the pad and turn the same out from between the printing-face of the head and the surface to be printed; substantially as described.

MEADE R. FLYNN.

W'itnesses:

JONATHAN BRECKENRIDGE STovALL, HARRY HADACEK. 

